Optimal combination of document binarization techniques using a self-organizing map neural network

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-24

  Badekas, E ^a   Papamarkos, N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binarization; Document processing; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

BINARIZATION TECHNIQUES; DOCUMENT BINARIZATION; PARAMETER VALUES;

BINARY SEQUENCES;

EID: 33750617132     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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